Sunday, April 19, 2009

No More Haunted Mansion

Remember my morgue-like sewing room?

NO MORE FUNERAL PARLOR DRAPES!! WHOO HOOOOO!

Gee, it's about time, isn't it? I've only been staring at those horrible depressing drapes--courtesy of our home's previous owner--for ten years now. Yay! We now have nice white faux wood blinds, courtesy of our local Home Depot.

And did you notice the color? We painted, too! (Thanks for all your color suggestions on this post.) This was my inspiration palette:

Obviously, a color scheme selected by a perimenopausal woman living in Hawaii. Summer is so dang hot! I'd rather fantasize that I'm living atop that iceberg there.

Here were the iceberg-inspired swatches that I agonized over:

As you can see, icy, cool, ice cube colors. I had actually decided on "Tide Pools," which is on the card furthest to your left--middle swatch. But the day we purchased the paint, I forgot my paint swatches at home, and had to remember what color I had decided upon. The remembering part didn't go so well--I picked out a new group of aqua swatches and "Delicate Mist" looked and sounded more familiar, so I bought a gallon of that one. ("Delicate Mist" is the middle card, middle color.)

I remembered wrong. Oh well, it's kind of close. It looked closer under the lighting at Home Depot, anyway.

It's difficult to capture the color in this room! There is too much light to be able to see it very well.

We actually finished painting a couple weeks ago, but I didn't post pictures because I couldn't get good pictures of the paint color (I still can't). The window light burns out the camera, so the color is hard to photograph.

It's a very delicate color. I like it a lot. I think if it were any darker, I'd tire of it easily.

It feels very serene and peaceful in here atop my imaginary iceberg.

I picked up this sconce at my favorite thrift store. It's perfect for my knitting needles.

The light aqua is a little easier to see on this wall--but still, you don't see the whole large cumulative blue/green/gray space. It's a large room, so there is plenty of blue.

My sewing room will never be a "pretty" room. It's my work room. My quilt factory. I love my sewing table (ugly) and my machine-on-a-stick (12 feet of bare wood and sprinkler pipe), and all the yarn storage beneath. I suppose I could drape everything in fabric...but ugh...I'd rather be quilting. Besides, with all the bright natural light, decorator fabric fades in six months. Not worth it.

I like my room to be practical and rearrangeable. I also like to store my bulky, unattractive items so they are easy to get to. I think if I made it a really "pretty" room, I'd never want to get it messy!

I love my space. It feels very restful, without feeling very "Rest in Peace"-full, if you know what I mean.

37 comments:

Your sewing room is fantastic!! I love how airy and open it looks and the colour of the walls? To me, it's perfect -- makes me think of nice, cool water.The sconce to hold your knitting needles has to be the prettiest knitting needle holder I've ever seen!

Gorgeous colour, oh I just love it!! Perfect with all that natural light coming in ... sooooo glad the drapes are gone ;o). Hey, I recently made a quilt that would look perfect in that room he he he.Hugs,Joy :o)

What wonderful space you have. I am wishing I had more as my sewing room is tiny. The room look wonderful! I was trying to figure out what was on the wall and there right below was the close-up of the sconce and needles. Clever idea.

Wow, how cool your sewingroom is now! Also the windows look so good now! You can certainly find your knitting needles, when they are in the scone. I think I never find my knitting needle box, when I need knitting needles. You have now such a lovely space, where to create. I am happy for you!

took you long enough girl! but it looks very restful and cool. how i miss all the natural light of hawaii. i remember doreen and caryl raving about it when they would visit and i didnt get it. now that i live in the northwoods i totally get it. we've gotten over 9" of snow already since last night...can you believe it? but i am very excited about my knitting class on wednesday...get to start the afghan for max...am making out of "super wash" cannot remember if it is wool or alpaca...duh. again your sewing space looks awesome! and i love the blue kitty. miss you

I love the room. All those windows! I use a paint color called Beach Glass that looks sort of like yours. I've yet to get a true photo of it as it changes colors with the light. Sometimes it looks blue, sometimes, green.I like your homemade quilting frame.

Love the soft aqua blue with the white accents. Your new blinds really change the room and now you can control the lighting. Your thrift shop sconce and knitting needles is very whimsical! I'm not sure I could work in your neat looking space. I have to be surrounded by patterns, fabric, books and stuff. Your sewing space is great! 95 in Santa Rosa today. Hot!

the super wash is 100% wool. i got the first block done today during class and then at quilt group. tomarrow morning i am going to see mary lynn again so she can teach me how to pick up stiches and cast onto the block. i am very excited about this project and it will keep me busy for awhile. i just got a postcard from jeni and she broke her leg?!! do you know what happened.

OH WOW..... If I had a craft space like that room I would never want to leave home. What a wonderful atmosphere to create in, I am sure you will spend many a happy hour there. Good luck.(((HUGS))) Roz.